TEHRAN – The 12th edition of the Tehran International FICTS Festival will be held on the Persian Gulf island Qeshm simultaneously from June 23 to 27, the organizers announced in a press release on Friday.

TEHRAN – The Union Internationale de la Marionette (UNIMA) has selected photos of three Iranian opera puppet shows directed by Behruz Gharibpur to publish in a booklet, which is scheduled to be released during a celebration for its 90th anniversary.

TEHRAN – Iranian shorts “Foruzan” and “Slaughter” have won awards at the 2nd edition of the Fredonia Film Festival, an international festival of short films that was held in Dunkirk, New York in the U.S.

TEHRAN – The organizers of the Ammar Popular Film Festival have launched a campaign titled #Brotherhood to support Afghan migrants in Iran in response to Iran’s claim that it can’t afford to keep hosting Afghan refugees in a warning to Europe.

Photo: Babak Borzouyeh

An exhibition of photos of Iran’s recent flood under the title “Everywhere for Everyone” opens at the venue of Iran's cultural attache office in Paris on Saturday. The opening ceremony was attended by Iran's ambassador to France Bahram Qasemi, Iran's cultural attache to Paris Jamal Kamyab and photojournalist Michel Setboun who shoot over 45,000 photos of 1979 Islamic Revolution. A collection of photos depicting people and the Iranian Red Crescent in the flood-stricken regions helping victims of the devastation that occurred in the provinces of Golestan, Lorestan and Khuzestan showcased previously at the pavilion of Iran’s Farabi Cinema Foundation at the Cannes Film Festival from May 22 to 24

By Saeed Sobhani

TEHRAN - Finally, the British prime minister officially announced that he would resign from his post. Theresa May leaves the power while the British withdrawal from Europe remains unabridged. Nobody also knows British Prime Minister as a professional and powerful politician! Undoubtedly, the British PM's resignation does not mean a political calm in this European country! In the near future, Britain will become the focus of political conflicts. Since 2016, many political analysts have warned of this.

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By Alireza Hashemi

TEHRAN - The May 12 explosions off the coast of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates--one of the oil-shipping hubs across the globe--has become a controversy shrouded in mystery that could serve the interests of those seeking escalated tensions in Iran relations.

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By Mohammad Ghaderi

TEHRAN - This year, Quds international Day will be of special importance since U.S. is planning to officially announce the “Deal of the Century”, a deal mainly designed to complete the Zionists ominous project for pushing Palestinians out of their lands.

TEHRAN - The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations has hit out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s “idiotic” terror accusations, saying Tehran has been the biggest victim and strongest enemy of terrorism in the region, Press TV reported.

By Mahnaz Abdi

Central Bank of Iran (CBI) unveiled a directive package on Monday which provides the country’s exporters with guidelines about how they should re-inject their foreign currency incomes into the country’s economy.

TEHRAN — Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam also known as Setad-e Ejraiy-e Farman-e Hazrat-e Emam has donated some 2,000 packages of home appliances as well as 1,000 livestock to the flood victims in northeastern province of North Khorasan.

TEHRAN- The Statistical Center of Iran announced that the inflation rate in the twelve-month period ended on May 21, which marks the end of the second Iranian calendar month of Ordibehesht, stood at 34.2 percent, IRIB reported.

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By staff and agency

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the U.S. seeks to provoke the Iranians, hoping to pressure them into retaliation that would provide a casus belli for a military strike and called Washington’s policy “very dangerous”.

TEHRAN – “The legacy of the liberation of Khorramshahr helped us make victory out of 40 years of military combat, sanctions, terrorism, and economic war,” the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council wrote in a message on the anniversary of the liberation of Khorramshahr from Saddam Hussein’s invading army back in May 1982.